Announcements

Samana Developers announced plans to accept Dogecoin as payment right before the launch of its Jumeriah Village Circle Subai residential project this summer. A Dubai developer announced on Wednesday it plans to begin accepting Dogecoin as a payment option for its latest project launch, despite recent turbulence in cryptocurrency markets. Samana Developers made the announcement…

It looks like FOX intends to bring attention and publicity to the NFT sector by creating a new animated series, from the author of the world-famous Rick and Morty The new firm will be called Blockchain Creative Labs, Fox confirmed, per the Hollywood Reporter, and its first series will be called Krapopolis, which it described…

A team based out of Sydney, Australia is building what it claims is the world’s first “Shariah-guided” decentralized finance platform to navigate a course between the advantages of DeFi and the beliefs of Islamic finance. The Marhaba Decentralized Financial Platform — Marhaba translates to “welcome” in Arabic — is expected to launch in the coming…

In the largest and loudest transaction in history, SpaceX accepted DOGE as payment from Geometric Energy Corporation for launching a Dogecoin-style rocket to the moon (literally). The well-known expression “To the moon” means a sharp, almost “vertical” rise in the rate of any cryptocurrency. Geometric Energy Corporation took it literally and decided to send a…

Sienna is a privacy-first and cross-chain DeFi platform. The Sienna Network, a privacy-focused, cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has raised $11.2 million in a private and public token sale. Of the total amount, $10 million came from long-term investors including NGC, Inclusion Capital, Lotus Capital, FBG, SkyVision Capital and others. Sienna is built on the…

Mastercard has tracked customer usage as it relates to cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin. The company has seen consumers using their Mastercard debit cards to purchase crypto assets and begin to use crypto cards on its network. With cryptocurrencies becoming more accepted as an investment and payment method, Mastercard is taking steps to make it easier for…